As for determining which animals have been strangled and not drained of their blood, we must understand that the focus was on the quantity of blood remaining in the meat of the animal. It was not the fact that the animal was strangled that kept it from being eaten, but the fact that it was never drained of its blood.
The Eocene constitutes the middle part of the Paleogene period (65-23 million years ago), preceded by the Paleocene and succeeded by the Oligocene epoch (34-23 million years ago); all of these periods and epochs were part of the Cenozoic Era (65 million years ago to the present).
Geological timescale. Triassic period: 250â200 million years ago. Jurassic period: 200â145 million years ago. Cretaceous period: 145â65 million years ago. Dinosaurs roamed the planet for about 165 million years, during a time in the Earthâs history called the Mesozoic Era. It is difficult to imagine how long this was, until we compare it with ourselves: humans have lived on Earth for less than two million years. During the Mesozoic Era, the Earthâs landmasses changed dramatically, new seas were formed, and plants and animals evolved.